re: Is the South China Sea on the brink of war?

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that was a draw. If it hadn't been for the Battle of New Orleans we would look at that war and say wtf were they thinking.

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True...I guess when I think of it, like many, I include New Orleans in the final tally.

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Iraq was a win, but the Obama admin has let it fall back into the toss up category and the same will happen with Afghanistan

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I guess it depends on how you look at it. We won, we withdrew.

The Vietnamese certainly view the Battle_of_Ia_Drang as a win because the include the entire period their troops were in action not just the initial few days. Perspective I suppose.

That being said we should have left Afghanistan the day after Bin Laden died. I don't give a frick about nation building the mission was to smoke Bin Laden, and he was.